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     5 Data Compression and Archiving

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     8 The modules described in this chapter support data compression with the zlib,

     9 gzip, and bzip2 algorithms, and  the creation of ZIP- and tar-format archives.

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    14    zlib.rst

    15    gzip.rst

    16    bz2.rst

    17    zipfile.rst

    18    tarfile.rst